Shop local businesses and enjoying community festivities this Thanksgiving weekend. There’s plenty of Black Friday & Small Business Saturday events to find the perfect gift at! Then follow up a day of shopping with tree-lightings, parades, festivals, and more!
Shopping
Black Friday Weekend Sale
November 25th-27th
Moorestown Mall
Black Friday. Small Business Saturday. Plus, Sunday!
Shop Small & Local Businesses with Marketing Solutions & Events.
WheatonArts Studio Sale
November 25th – December 4th | 10 AM – 4 PM
WheatonArts
WheatonArts annual Holiday Studio Sale begins every year on Black Friday! Explore original works of pottery and glass art at discounted prices. Pottery includes works by Senior Resident Potter, Terry Plasket, and the WheatonArts’ team of Associate Potters, Samantha Bartlett, Tessa Carlton, Clint Hunter, Amy Peseller, and Phyllis Seidner. The Holiday Studio Sale features the Glass Art of Melanie and David Leppla, as well as unique works by the WheatonArts Staff Glass Artists. Admission is FREE to the sale, open November 25 through December 4, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the WheatonArts Event Center. Visitors can create personalized gift tags for all the perfect gifts they find at the complimentary art activity table.
Candlelit Shopping
Friday evenings starting November 26th | 6 PM – 9 PM
Downtown Haddonfield
Candlelight Shopping features Santa, carriage rides, carolers and twinkling luminarias lining the quaint streets. With over 200 shops and restaurants offering distinctive gifts and friendly customer service, businesses along Kings Highway and Downtown Haddonfield’s charming side streets – which include Mechanic Street, Ellis Street, Tanner Street, Haddy Lane, Kings Court, and Haddon Avenue – welcome everyone to shop in their beautifully curated stores and find delightful holiday treasures. Discover an array of incredible gifts in distinctive shops, food/beverage establishments, and boutiques, while enjoying the festivities and town-wide twinkling décor.
Lights on Main
November 26th | 4 PM – 8 PM
Main Street Mullica Hill
Come stroll Main Street and enjoy the holiday festivities, special photo ops and support the local businesses in Mullica Hill. Delicious Food. Family Fun. Fabulous Shopping. And Santa will be around as well! Social distancing please
Handmade Holiday Sidewalk Sale
November 26th | 11 AM – 3 PM
Lower Forge
The artists who meet monthly at Forging Fibers are having a sidewalk sale for some great holiday shopping. Join them for some fun this date. Forging Fiber folks be sure to post if you are coming and maybe share some pictures of your goodies.
Small Business Saturday Pop-up
November 26th | 11 AM – 3 PM
Upcycle
Upcycle’s 5th Annual Small Business Pop UP Market is back again and bigger than ever!
Join us immediately following the Collingswood Holiday Parade on Small Business Saturday — November 26th — from 11am-3pm.
We’ll have 18 vendors throughout the building in both studios and we’ve curated an amazing variety of goods this year! Pop in after watching the parade along the Ave – grab a hot (or cold) drink from Wild&co and shop ’til you drop. Our featured vendors will have everything from jewelry to home goods to self care products and more! We’ll be slingin’ gift cards and fresh upcycle apparel and class packs [when we say this is our biggest event of the year, it’s really the biggest WEEKEND of the year at the studio].
AWA Pawliday Market
November 26th-27th | 12 PM – 5 PM
AWA
Throughout November & December stop by AWA each weekend to shop with a variety of vendors and visit the animals!
Small Business Saturday
November 26th
Downtown Merchantville
Support local Merchantville businesses!
Small Business Saturday at Rancocas Woods
November 26th
Rancocas Woods
Shop over a 100 outdoor vendors, enjoy food trucks, and a pop-up beer garden!
Holiday Winterfest
November 27th | 12 PM – 4 PM
Bridgeton Riverfront
HOLIDAY WINTERFEST at the Bridgeton Riverfront. A Christmas Tribute to Healthcare Heroes & First Responders. Help us start the holiday season & spread holiday cheer! Spectacular live stage show – 1-2 p.m, artisans, crafts, more. Free event by Bridgeton Main Street Association.
Holiday Fun
Collingswood Tree Lighting and Holiday Parade
November 25th – 7 PM | November 26th – 10 AM
Downtown Collingswood
Santa descends from atop Borough Hall by way of the Collingswood Fire Department’s ladder truck – just in time for the Borough’s official Tree Lighting Ceremony beginning at 7pm.
The Collingswood Holiday Parade will be back on Haddon Avenue on Saturday, November 26 beginning at 10am.
Audubon Fire Department’s 34th Annual Christmas Parade of Lights
November 26th | 7 PM
Audubon
Audubon Fire Department presents its 34th Annual Christmas Parade of Lights on Saturday November 26, 2022 at 7:00 PM. Come out to see decorated fire apparatus, emergency vehicles, floats, and car clubs as we ring in the holiday season. The big guy himself will even be down from the North Pole. The parade will follow its normal route;
-Starting at Paul VI High School on Hopkins Rd towards E Pine St
-Making a right onto E Pine St and continuing up to Wyoming Ave
-Making a right onto Wyoming Ave and continuing to Merchant St
-Making a right onto Merchant St and continuing to the fire department where the parade will conclude.
Please join us at the fire department at the end of the parade and with a little Christmas magic from Santa himself, we will light the town Christmas tree and the fire station. We look forward to seeing everyone on the parade route!
Barrington Parade
November 26th | 7 PM
On Friday, November 25, join us at 6:45 pm for our annual tree lighting ceremony at the large tree in front of Borough Hall (229 Trenton Ave)! At 7:00 pm, our lighted fire truck parade will begin. The parade will follow the traditional 4th of July parade route, beginning at the intersection of Barrington Ave and Clements Bridge Road, traveling south on Clements Bridge Road, turning right on Gloucester Pike, then right on Moore Ave, then right on Reading Ave to Second Ave.
Dickens Festival at Historic Smithville
November 26th-27th
Historic Smithville
Riddlesbrood Touring Theatre Company will bring the Spirit of Christmas back to Historic Smithville, when they return to present their two-day outdoor “Dickens Fest.” Featuring an original, musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol”, Charles Dickens’ heartwarming, classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey from greed to redemption that will surely raise your spirits and warm the cockles of your heart as you travel through time with the Ghosts of Christmas and witness the ultimate transformation of this miserly skinflint into a jolly Father Christmas, himself!
Shows at 1pm & 7pm Saturday; a show at 1pm on Sunday
Annual Swedesboro Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting
November 26th | 1 PM
Downtown Swedesboro
The Annual Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting will be held Saturday, November 26th Starting at 1 PM.
On Saturday, November 26th, head downtown in Swedesboro to enjoy a day full of events meant to kick off the Holiday Season! The Greater Swedesboro Business AssociatIon sponsored parade will feature a variety of floats, community groups and performing groups.
Christmas Parade | Kings Highway | 1 PM
Santa & floats with community groups
Christmas Tree Lighting | Borough Hall | 6:30 PM
Community Caroling
Pitman Parade
November 27th | 5 PM
The Pitman Parade Committee will hold its annual Santa Parade on Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 5:00pm. The parade will start on North Broadway at the Pitman United Methodist Church and will end at Ballard Park.
Holiday Wine Trail Weekend
November 25th-27th
South Jersey Wineries
Spend the holiday weekend enjoying the wineries around South Jersey.
Wine & Chocolate Tasting
November 25th-26th
Mecha Chocolate – Haddonfield
Make this holiday season the SWEETEST yet! Tis the season to be especially jolly with MECHA chocolate!
Ever wanted to try out a wine-tasting session and never got around to it? MECHA Chocolate, a 2012-born local Haddonfield business, is joining forces with Wine Til Sold Out (WTSO) to bring you a memorable wine and chocolate tasting session on the 25th and 26th of November 2022. From crémant to 2018 Château Goudichaud, get ready for a real sweet-treat that’s bound to give you the chocolate fix you have been looking for!